Nikita Slater Books in Order (Updated April 14, 2026)

Nikita Slater’s catalog is not one long continuity chain. It is a set of dark-romance shelves that each ask for a slightly different reading strategy. Some series are best read straight through. Some are designed as standalones inside a shared mood. A few are really repackagings of earlier material under a stronger brand.

The easiest way to read her work is to decide what you want first:

• Mafia and captive romance: start with The Queens or Sinner’s Empire
• Older backlist mafia/suspense: start with Fire & Vice
• MC romance: start with Hell’s Jury MC
• Post-apocalyptic romance: start with The Sanctuary
• Paranormal romance: start with Immortal Wolf Shifters

The backbone of the catalog

If you want the shortest explanation possible, these are the series that matter most for orientation:

• Fire & Vice is the early long-form suspense/mafia run.
• The Queens is a cleaner dark-mafia entry point.
• Sinner’s Empire is one of the strongest later mafia series.
• Kings of the Underworld is built as mostly standalones.
• Hell’s Jury MC is the main biker line.
• The Sanctuary is the dystopian/post-apocalyptic branch.
• Immortal Wolf Shifters is the paranormal branch.

Start with the right series, not the earliest year

For most new readers, The Queens is the cleanest starting point. Nikita Slater’s official store says each book in that series features a different couple and can be read as a standalone, which makes it friendlier than beginning with the larger, older Fire & Vice run.

If you want a more connected mafia climb, choose Sinner’s Empire instead. If you want biker romance first, choose Rocky from Hell’s Jury MC. If you want the apocalyptic branch, begin with Sanctuary’s Warlord.

Read Nikita Slater by series

The Queens

This is one of the easiest shelves to enter because the books are built around different couples, with official product copy saying they can be read as standalones.

1. Scarred Queen: A dark-mafia opener where Reyes claims the woman he sees as the spoils of war, setting the series tone with brutality, possession, and high emotional pressure.
2. Queen’s Move: The second book keeps the same underworld energy but shifts the spotlight to a new couple and a different power balance.
3. Alejandro’s Prey: A shorter in-between entry that works like a bridge inside the series rather than a full reset.
4. Born a Queen: Officially described as book three, it follows a new couple and can still be read on its own even though it sits inside the same world.
5. The Red Queen: The fourth main novel, closing the currently visible series run with the same standalone-couple structure and dark-mafia tone.

Sinner’s Empire

This is a stronger pick for readers who want a tighter mafia sequence rather than a looser standalone shelf. The official bundle page presents books 1 through 4 together as one dark captive mafia series.

1. Sin of Silence (2020): A surgeon is kidnapped into a mob crisis and forced to rely on the enforcer who should be the most dangerous man in the room.
2. A Silent Reckoning (2021): The second book continues the series’ blend of organized crime, captivity, and emotional escalation.
3. Goodnight, Sinners (2021): A later entry that keeps the same violent-romantic mood while pushing the empire conflict wider.
4. Gangster’s Empire: Leeza & Havel (2023): A fourth-book continuation that expands the family and couple focus rather than restarting the world.

Hell’s Jury MC

This is the biker shelf, and it is one of the most current active lines on her official store. The store lists Red as book 5 and Eight as another Hell’s Jury MC novel, while Fantastic Fiction extends the series through Eight in 2025.

1. Rocky (2022): A cartel-money run goes wrong, and the heroine who saves the bikers ends up dragged back to the clubhouse to face the fallout.
2. Coyote (2023): The second book continues the club’s violent loyalties and rough-edged romance style with a new central couple.
3. Trigger (2023): A third MC romance that deepens the club world before the shorter bridge book arrives.
4. Hash (2024): Often treated like a 3.5-style entry in bundle listings, it still fits best here before the later full novels.
5. Reaper (2024): A darker club-focused romance that moves the MC line forward after the earlier introductions.
6. Red (2024): Officially called the fifth book on the store page, it turns inward on club secrets and the cost of protecting what matters most.
7. Eight (2025): A forced-together biker romance involving children, friction, and a hero who barely talks, making it the latest clearly listed step in the series.

Fire & Vice

This is the early long-form suspense and dark-romance line. It is older, longer, and more sprawling than The Queens, so it works better for readers who already know they want the backlist.

1. Prisoner of Fortune (2016): The first book opens the series with danger, pursuit, and Nikita Slater’s early captive-romance instincts already in place.
2. Fight or Flight (2016): A second high-pressure romantic-suspense entry that keeps the same survival-and-obsession energy.
3. Billionaire’s Captive Mistress / King’s Command (2016): A billionaire-captive romance that later gets folded into Kings of the Underworld as well.
4. Savage Vendetta (2016): A darker revenge-shaped installment that helps define the series’ underworld mood.
5. Savage Boss (2021): A later side entry often treated as book 4.5, and best read after Savage Vendetta.
6. Fear in Her Eyes (2017): A danger-driven romance that continues the series’ fixation on threat and protection.
7. Bound by Blood (2017): Family ties and criminal loyalty push more heavily into the emotional center here.
8. In His Sights (2018): A hunter-and-target setup that keeps the suspense edge near the front of the romance.
9. Burning Beauty (2019): A later-series entry that maintains the same dark, possessive style.
10. Chasing Ecstasy (2022): The currently listed ninth main book and the visible endpoint of the series.

Kings of the Underworld

This is where the reading rules loosen. The official collection page says these are dark-romance standalones that can be read in any order, except that Mafia’s Savage Boss is a sequel to Mafia’s Savage Obsession.

1. Billionaire’s Captive Mistress / King’s Command (2016): The crossover title that starts this shelf with a captive billionaire setup.
2. Mafia’s Savage Obsession (2022): A jealous, possessive mafia romance and the setup book for the later sequel.
3. Mercenary’s Dark Obsession (2022): A mercenary-focused standalone with the same morally gray anti-hero feel.
4. Bratva’s Captive Assassin (2022): A Bratva romance mixing captivity and assassination-world danger.
5. Bounty Hunter’s Innocent Prize (2022): A hunter-target setup shaped around innocence colliding with ruthless pursuit.
6. Italian’s Captive Beauty (2022): An Italian anti-hero romance built around abduction, control, and reluctant attraction.
7. Bodyguard’s Forbidden Obsession (2022): A protection romance where the bodyguard role becomes more personal and more dangerous.
8. Mafia’s Savage Boss (2022): The one book here that should not be pulled out of order, because the official note calls it a sequel to Mafia’s Savage Obsession.

The Sanctuary

This is the dystopian branch, and it reads much more like a true sequence than a shelf of standalones. The official bundle pages split it into a trilogy plus a later duet, which is the clearest sign that order matters here.

1. Sanctuary’s Warlord (2019): A post-apocalyptic opener that establishes the series’ violent survival world and its warlord-led romance dynamic.
2. Sanctuary on Fire (2019): The second book escalates the threat level and keeps the world under pressure rather than resetting it.
3. The Last Sanctuary (2019): A trilogy capstone that works best after the first two because the setting stakes are cumulative.
4. The Road to Wolfe (2020): The series then shifts into a later duet branch, extending the same dystopian world rather than beginning a separate one.
5. Skye’s Sanctuary (2021): The fifth book completes the currently listed sequence.

Immortal Wolf Shifters

This is the paranormal shelf, and it is much easier to read in order than to cherry-pick.

1. Damaged Mate (2022): A shifter-romance opener built around the damaged-bond idea and the need to rebuild trust.
2. The Witch and the Wolf (2023): A paranormal follow-up that adds witchcraft tension to the mate-bond structure.
3. Wolf’s Eternal Bride (2024): A later-book continuation that leans harder into fate and permanent union.
4. Protected by Her Mate (2025): The most recent clearly listed installment, continuing the series into 2025.

Driven Hearts

This is a compact dark-romance/mafia shelf that sits between her early long series and the later cleaner-branded lines.

1. Driven by Desire (2017): A boss-and-mechanic romance where power, refusal, and obsession create the series’ opening spark.
2. Thieving Hearts (2017): A run-and-hunt setup that pushes pursuit and possession to the front.
3. Capturing Victory (2018): A third entry that keeps the captive-dark-romance pattern but shifts to a new couple.
4. The Princess and Her Mercenary (listed on the official store): A later companion entry that extends the line beyond the original three-book bundle.

Hot Vancouver Nights

This is a short co-authored branch with R. Glazer rather than a major core shelf.

1. CEO Daddy (2022): A contemporary, trope-forward romance that sits outside the heavier mafia and dystopian lanes.
2. Club Jack (2025): A later entry that keeps this shorter collaborative line alive without turning it into a huge continuity project.

Loving the Bad Boy

A small two-book contemporary-dark shelf rather than a long-running world.

1. Loving Vincent (2020): A prison nurse draws the attention of a local mob boss, giving the series a direct “ordinary woman meets dangerous man” setup.
2. Loving Jared (2020): A neighbor-in-distress romance where Jared’s need to rescue becomes the emotional engine.

Psycho Love

Psychopath’s Kiss (2023): A locked-in-with-your-stalker romance where seven days of forced proximity become the whole terrifying-romantic premise.

Standalones and separate books

These are best treated as independent stops rather than part of one master sequence.

• Because You’re Mine (2017): A protection-heavy standalone where long-held devotion becomes action once the heroine is threatened.
• The Assassin’s Wife (2017): A darker obsession romance built around taking a ballerina off the stage and hiding her away.
• Kiss of the Cartel (2019): A cartel-centered standalone for readers who want mafia intensity without a longer series commitment.
• Toxic Love Story (2022): A kidnapped-heroine standalone where survival depends on falling for the monster who took her.
• Collared (2019, with Jasmin Quinn): A co-authored novella rather than a core-series step.
• Scandalous (2024, with Jasmin Quinn): A later collaboration listed as a collection/anthology-style project.

The best reading orders

Best overall first path

1. Scarred Queen
2. Queen’s Move
3. Alejandro’s Prey
4. Born a Queen
5. The Red Queen

That route gives you Nikita Slater’s dark-mafia style in a cleaner, less sprawling format than starting with Fire & Vice.

Best path for readers who want a more connected mafia series

1. Sin of Silence
2. A Silent Reckoning
3. Goodnight, Sinners
4. Gangster’s Empire: Leeza & Havel

Best path for biker romance readers

1. Rocky
2. Coyote
3. Trigger
4. Hash
5. Reaper
6. Red
7. Eight

Best path for readers who want the apocalypse books

1. Sanctuary’s Warlord
2. Sanctuary on Fire
3. The Last Sanctuary
4. The Road to Wolfe
5. Skye’s Sanctuary

Latest release status

The newest clearly listed Nikita Slater series releases I found are Eight in Hell’s Jury MC, Protected by Her Mate in Immortal Wolf Shifters, and Club Jack in Hot Vancouver Nights, all shown as 2025 titles on Fantastic Fiction. Her official homepage still features Red as a “new release,” but the broader bibliography lists those 2025 books as later titles, so they are the safer reference point for the current backlist.

Final recommendation

For most readers, start with The Queens. It is the cleanest shelf, the easiest one to enter without homework, and the one least likely to bury you in backlist sprawl. After that, move to Sinner’s Empire if you want a more continuous mafia line, Hell’s Jury MC if you want bikers, or The Sanctuary if you want Nikita Slater’s darker survival-world fiction.